Sherdog.com Preview: UFC Fight Night Under Card

Season four of Spike TV’s The Ultimate Fighter is ready to go, and to wet your appetite the newly renamed UFC Fight Night is being presented Thursday evening on the cable television network.

The card offers plenty of first-timers entering the Octagon with varied degrees of experience in MMA. Of the eight fighters battling dark bouts, only one has been in the UFC before.

On the main card, it is a welterweight and middleweight extravaganza. In fact every bout on the card, save the Midoux-O’Brien heavyweight match, falls into one of these two divisions.

Sure these are two entertaining weight classes but this is an obvious tactic to draw your interest into these divisions because TUF 4 is comprised of these same two categories.

With the lightweight division having recently been brought back by the promoters, all the buzz about Wanderlei Silva (Pictures) and Chuck Liddell (Pictures) fighting in the light heavyweight division and the eternal lack of serious depth in the heavyweight division, I think some more homework should’ve gone into balancing out this card.

But hey, that’s just my two cents. As the saying goes, you get what you pay for.

Non-Televised Bouts:
Crafton Wallace (Pictures) vs. Martin Kampmann (Pictures)
Jake O’Brien vs. Kristof Midoux (Pictures)
Anthony Torres vs. Pat Healy (Pictures)
Sam Morgan (Pictures) vs. Forrest Petz (Pictures)

Main Card Bouts:
Joe Riggs (Pictures) vs. Jason Von Flue (Pictures)
Chris Leben (Pictures) vs. Jorge Santiago (Pictures)
Josh Koscheck (Pictures) vs. Jonathan Goulet (Pictures)
Dean Lister (Pictures) vs. Yuki Sasaki (Pictures)

Welterweight Main Event:
Karo Parisyan (Pictures) vs. Diego Sanchez (Pictures)